It’s an easy language to learn, a lot like watching stars. It’s not translatable into human words, but that doesn’t mean it’s not readable by humans. Even writable. I bet you could […]
Reading the Language of Leaves
More Beautiful Ice
Some of the ice I found yesterday is pure art. Here’s a fragment of ice that is acting as a prism, creating blue light out of the early morning. These artworks looked […]
Beauuuuuuuuuuuutiful Ice
What happens when a 135-kilometre-long lake made out of 10,000-year-old melted glacier starts to re-freeze? Spirit! This should be a day off work for the 300,000 people in the valley. We could […]
Beauty in a Roadside Puddle
Life is an arrangement of energies and tensions.It helps to slow them down, as the ice in this roadside puddle did overnight. Perhaps it’s not life that’s the story, but boundaries, where […]
Life in the Snow
Here’s a piece of a cliff, a rare remnant of the Chilcotin Basalt that the glaciers didn’t scour away this far south. These rocks flowed on top of the land and set […]
The Seventh Dimension
Yesterday, I explored six dimensions of bodies on the grasslands. I’d like to show you the seventh today. I’d like to talk about ethics. Let me introduce you to one of the […]
Introduction to the Sixth Dimension
I’ve been talking about human bodies in the grassland, represented as lines, fields and houses. I think it’s very important at this point of human domination over a living planet to overturn […]
Humans Go 3-D
Yesterday I talked about how humans (and dogs) navigate the world through one- and two-dimensional patterns and the intersections between them. These are less qualities of the world than qualities of the […]
Dogs and Humans: the Showdown
Here’s something cool about dogs. Footprints in the Snow Dogs follow edges. When you’re a dog, you don’t even think about it. You go for boundaries, and you stay there. Since the […]
Environmental Accounting & Poverty
In my last post, I spoke about the Old Norse concept of a tun, a farm yard constructed at the intersection of social and physical earths. I argued that tuns created the […]
Okanagan Okanogan 